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Kent Beck Keynote

KentBeck of Three Rivers Instituteput on the keynote at Essential Fox at 8 AM this morning in Kansas City. Great stuff.

Machine A makes parts for Machine B. To increase the productivity/predictability of Machine B, cache an inventory of parts between them. Output/throughput of B increases as inventory increases. Quality control and predictability goes down as inventory delays delivery of parts from A to B.

First hour on the dynamics of process.

Second hour on how Extreme Programming addresses the issues:

Sit Together

Stories

Quarterly Plans

Weekly Plans

Customer Tests

Up-to-date Estimates

Pair programming

Refactoring

Sustainable Pace

Continuous Integration

Test-Driven Development

About Ted Roche

Contoocook, NH based developer working at Ted Roche & Associates, LLC. Former FoxPro expert, now specializing in Open Source web development using the LAMP stack and WordPress.